Posted by Phoebus Apollo on 3/28/2003, 12:50 pm, in reply to "Re: War on Iraq" I think there is every reason to, just no real justification for us to do it. It's the right and responsibility of those in the Middle East who live influenced by the Iraqi government to do so. Not us. We have a whole slew of obstacles to overcome before humans can obtain world peace or even just general agreement between all nations and in my opinion, they include the following (by no means complete and not necessarily in any particular order): I think all we need is a populace that largely believes in free-markets and property rights. With those two conditions, any real major social conflict can be resolved peacefully. You give the UN too much credit. I actually give the U.N. no credit. As I said in my post, even if the U.N.'s sanctions were envoked in declaring this war, which as far as I can tell they weren't, I would not recognize any legitimacy to their authority. As for the U.N. going the way of the League of Nations, I don't think it will unless we have the balls to leave it. I think other nations find it's political platform too powerful to not expand upon, especially since the U.N. deploy their own confederated military. I personally always thought the difference between the League of Nations and the U.N. is the difference between the threat of squat and the threat of a global government. We'll see, though.
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Everytime I hear that there is no reason for removing the Iraqi regime by force (that's not to say that you said that)
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